Discusses his work and attending a lecture on Faust. Transcription: February 1. Friday. ?ǣMose [among the Britishers], ? and that not so industriously as in the other days. In the evening, April-like afternoon went to the Post Office with letter for M [Mary Bilton]. And returning called in at Warren Butler ?s, but did not find him. 2. Saturday. ?ǣMose. ? Evening, a dreary walk about divers dirty, disreputable-looking streets hereabouts. 3. Sunday. Reading, [Percy Bysshe] Shelley, [Tobias] Smollett and the Vicar of Wakefield . Fire lit, relit and extinct perseveringly. Night, a walk to Christo
Discusses his work and attending a lecture on Faust. Transcription: February 1. Friday. ?ǣMose [among the Britishers], ? and that not so industriously as in the other days. In the evening, April-like afternoon went to the Post Office with letter for M [Mary Bilton]. And returning called in at Warren Butler ?s, but did not find him. 2. Saturday. ?ǣMose. ? Evening, a dreary walk about divers dirty, disreputable-looking streets hereabouts. 3. Sunday. Reading, [Percy Bysshe] Shelley, [Tobias] Smollett and the Vicar of Wakefield . Fire lit, relit and extinct perseveringly. Night, a walk to Christopher Street: Joe [Greatbatch] there, having returned on Monday last. Says he ?s weak, rheumatic, limbs swelled &c. 4. Monday. ?ǣMose, ? ? Busy as a fiend all day, spite of headache, indigestion and legions of blue devils. / Can ?t forgive that abominable bell down at airs. When too dusk to draw, I had lain down on bed, sombre musing, the heat of the fire sent me to the land of dreams. I had returned ? had my arms round her waist and was speaking ? when ?ǣJangle! Jangle, crash! smash ? smash! ? ? bell ringing for supper! Which did this dream issue from ? the Ivory & Horn gate- / Remained indoors till 8, expecting [Bill] Collinson and Hughie [Muir], then went to the Clinton Hall. Park Godwin on [Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe ? A careful, though somewhat condensed analyas of Wilhelm Meister and the Faust. Of the latter the complete whole of First and Second parts ably manifested. Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 1, page 84, February 1-4, 1850 . 1 February 1850. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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